IEP Annual Seminar in Bucharest

EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) organised from 3 to 5 October, in Bucharest (Romania), its Annual Seminar for the IEP pool. The event, hosted by the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), aimed to prepare pool members for the forthcoming IEP evaluations taking place in the next months.
This year the Programme has a particularly busy schedule with the launch of both its round of regular evaluations (with seven universities having registered to undergo an IEP evaluation), and the second round of the ongoing coordinated evaluations in Romania.
The latter are part of an overall reform of the Romanian higher education system initiated in January 2011 through the new bill for education, which foresees the evaluation of all accredited universities in Romania by the end of November 2014. The second round of IEP evaluations, comprising 30 Romanian universities, is implemented in the framework of a project, funded with EU Structural Funds, entitled: Performance in Research, Performance in Teaching – Quality, Diversity, and Innovation in Romanian Universities. This project aims to evaluate 42 higher education institutions that have been included in two major clusters, according to the new law – research-intensive and teaching- and research-oriented. The universities belonging to the third cluster – mainly teaching institutions – will take part in the following rounds of IEP evaluations taking place in 2013 and 2014.
IEP is an independent membership service of EUA which offers universities improvement-oriented institutional evaluations on a non-profit basis. The evaluation teams are composed of higher education leaders, a student and one senior academic professional acting as team coordinator. IEP is a full member of ENQA (the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) and is listed on the EQAR (the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education).
More information on IEP is available on this website.